n the struggle.
Then he and the Pig-man and his kind friends helped us carry our things
home.

The Pig-man advised us on the way not to try these sort of kind actions
without getting a grown-up to help us. We've been advised this before,
but now I really think we shall never try to be benevolent to the poor
and needy again. At any rate not unless we know them very well first.

We have seen our own tramp often since. The Pig-man gave him a job. He
has got work to do at last. The Pig-man says he is not such a very bad
chap, only he will fall asleep after the least drop of drink. We know
that is his failing. We saw it at once. But it was lucky for us he fell
asleep that day near our benevolent bar.

I will not go into what my father said about it all. There was a good
deal in it about minding your own business--there generally is in most
of the talkings to we get. But he gave our tramp a sovereign, and the
Pig-man says he went to sleep on it for a solid week.

THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS

The author of these few lines really does hope to goodness that no one
will be such an owl as to think from the number of things we did when we
were in the country, that we were wretched, neglected little children,
whose grown-up relations sparkled in the bright haunts of pleasure, and
whirled in the giddy what's-its-name of fashion, while we were left to
weep forsaken at home. It was nothing of the kind, and I wish you to
know that my father was with us a good deal--and Albert's uncle gave up
a good many of his valuable hours to us. And the father of Denny and
Daisy came now and then, and other people, quite as many as we wished to
see. And we had some very decent times with them; and enjoyed ourselves
very much indeed, thank you. In some ways the good times you have with
grown-ups are better than the ones you have by yourselves. At any rate,
they are safer. It is almost impossible, then, to do anything fatal
without being pulled up short by a grown-up ere yet the deed is done.
And, if you are careful, anything that goes wrong can be looked on as
the grown-up's fault. But these secure pleasures are not so interesting
to tell about as the things you do when there is no one to stop you on
the edge of the rash act.

It is curious, too, that many of our most interesting games happened
when grown-ups were far away. For instance, when we were pilgrims.

It was just after the business of the benevolent bar, and it was a wet
day. It